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EasyDiscuss to Kunena

So, I'm trying to migrate everything over to Kunena from EasyDicuss. I know there isn't a method to do so, so everything would have to be done the SQL queries. I sorta figured it out but I'm missing something, I've gotten the categories, posts and replies over. However the Count for Topics and Replies are completely off. Stating I have over 800,000 replies and 270,000 topics... And I dont! no where near that. Also the Time is completely off, says the posts were 44 years ago

These are the SQL queries I ran to get as far as I am now, if anyone has any suggestions that would be awesome.

I guess I can be nice and post my working migration. This migration only migrates, Categories, Topics and Replies as this is all we really cared to migrate. The major issue we had were the TimeStamps as EasyDiscuss uses DATETIME and Kunena uses INT, so we need to modify Kunena's method temporarily.

DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK! I AM NOT A SQL EXPERT, I DID A TON OF GOOGLING! ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR DATABASE BEFORE MAKING ANY CHANGES!

(Remember to replace xx with your DB prefix)
First we truncated all the tables in Kunena we wanted to migrate data into.(NOTE: This removes everything from these tables!)

Then I went back into the Backend and do another Recount Statistics and BAM! everything works great. Like I said above, I'm not a SQL Expert so do this at your own risk, however this worked great for us.

OK ... this looks great and just wondering if you can provide feedback of how this has gone a couple of months down the track.

We unfortunately migrated to EasyDicuss from our old Kunena forum around 6 months ago for a hoped better UX ... but has been horrible to work with and we want to get ourselves back on Kunena. Kunena just works and I wish we'd stayed with it and just done a heap of optimisations ... so now we have to get back where the grass is greener.

Look forward to your reply ... and experiences anyone else has had with this method ... or other transfer methods from EasyDiscuss to Kunena.

** Also, if anyone provides services for an EasyDiscuss to Kunena transfer (and possibly ongoing assistance) please reach out and make contact.

Since no one replied on my question, i started myself to convert from easy discuss > Kunena.
Thx to the posters above i was verry suprised all went well. Considering i never ever did queries in databases before (i even did not know what is was) thats a huge compliment to the posters above.
Excellent work and thaks a lot Rik and Ubelmort !Just one note:

I had just 4 categories in Easy Discuss. After migrating they become sections wich turned to be in "no published categories" message in Kunena.
So if you like to see all the migrated posts in Kunena > Just make a new section and make the categories from easy discuss (wich become sections in Kunena) childs from the new section you created.
Bam!